Monday, April 10, 2006

Home Again

No, not here. Over there.Three terminals and two security checkpoints from here.-All the "helpful" airport officials at Dulles yesterday

I am home, a day later than I should be. Many many thanks to all my guest bloggers for holding down the fort in my absence. I hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did.

I had an absolutely wonderful time in Europe (Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Scotland), I have a fabulous new (and red) Volvo, and, among other things, drunk Slovenian moonshine with Scots. In Scotland. They used words like "nutter." Go figure. More details, including all sorts of great scenic knitting photos to follow.

In the interim, I'm still trying to recover from this:That would be the inflight entertainment on board. That was actually the best part of a day that turned into two when we got delayed, etc. etc. etc. I won't bore you with the details, but it wasn't pretty and there was knitting in the luggage that was (temporarily) lost.

On the upside, the stole pictured above is very pretty. And pretty, as in pretty funny, are the looks people give you when you take pictures of your knitting on the plane. If you think people look at you funny when you walk around town and take photos of your yarn, just try it at 36,000 feet over the middle of the North Atlantic. I think they were genuinely frightenend.

You've taken years off your readers' lives by bringing up concepts like "knitting in lost luggage." So glad to hear it was just temporary!

Isn't it amazing how badly airlines can screw up? And how often they do it. I honestly don't understand how they get away with it. If any other industry offered such a low quality of service (and customer service), I don't know that they'd last. Sorry to hear about your misadventures.